NOW!
ENLIGHTENMENT
PORTAL
SIAF (Lantern) | Sharjah Art Museum | Department of Culture
Enlightenment Portal serves as a metaphorical beacon—revealing unseen spiritual dimensions through material craft and poetic sound as an immersive piece with the recording of the weaving in her studio plays hidden as a murmur in the gallery space. Swinburn’s woven manuscripts are vessels of light—transmitting knowledge, preserving memory, and inviting transformation. By reimagining sacred objects through a contemporary lens, Swinburn offers a profound meditation on heritage, faith, and transcendence.
Until January 31st 2026
NOW!
SPOTIFY
Exited to share the launch of Catalina Swinburn in Spotify with the piece NO LAND 'The Water Ceremony'.
The sound piece, specially designed for the premier work to be displayed in Encounters ArtBasel Hong Kong with Selma Feriani, acts as an immersive experience inspired in a poem by Guaman Poma de Ayala (Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (b. c. 1535; d. c. 1615), one of the most polemic and most admired native authors of the colonial period considered a primary source of information on the pre-Columbian Andean world and on the first decades of Spanish colonization. Recorded with the performative action of weaving in the artist studio as part of the ritual to complete this 5 totems journey of this memories of shared cartographies.
En consecuencia, la obra de arte se activa por el rol de la artista como fabricante y ejecutora de la escultura. Esto podría interpretarse como una metáfora de la resistencia según la cual las narrativas entretejidas aparecen como un sustituto del silencio de las mujeres a lo largo de la historia.
ESTUDIO
Combinando la artesanía local con las tendencias mundiales y demostrando el modo en que las geografías seleccionadas comparten afinidades creativas universales y mutuas.
EXHIBICIONES RECIENTES
2024 NO LAND THE WATER CEREMONY
Encounters Art Basel
Hong Kong
2023 REVOLUTIONARY MYTHS
Or les Murs, Selma Feriani Gallery,
Fitzrovia Chapel, London, UK.
2022 OPEN BOOK
Public Space Permanent Pavillion,
Plaza Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2022 21,39 AMAKIN
Curated by Venetia Porter,
Jeddah, RK of Saudi Arabia.
2022 UNTITLED II
Selma Feriani Gallery,
Tunis, Tunisia.
2022 ARCHIVES FROM THE FUTURE
Selma Feriani Gallery & Aninat Gallery,
Cromwell Place, London, UK.
2023 ANALEPSIS
Arcomadrid
@AninatGaleria Booth 7c20
2022 CROWN LETTER
Institute Francais, Kyoto,
Japan in partnership with Goethe Institut Villa Kamogawa & Baron de Lesta
2021 ARCHAIC CONTINGENCY
Selma Feriani Gallery,
Cromwell Place, London.
2018 NARRATIVES OF DISPLACEMENT
Selma Feriani Gallery,
Tunis, Tunisia.
2016 LA FRONTERA PERFECTA
Centro Cultural Matta,
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2016 FISSURES
Selma Feriani Gallery. Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia 2013 Arqueologia Anticipada
Isabel Aninat Gallery. Santiago de Chile, Chile.
PUBLICACIONES
El trabajo de Catalina se traduce en mensajes fundamentales y cuestiones universales tales como la sustentabilidad, la identidad, la igualdad de género y la globalización con énfasis en las conexiones del Sur Global a lo largo de la historia.
Matters of Material, Christies London.
WE DEFY PARADIGMS
CATALINASWINBURNstudio convierte cualquier idea creativa en realidad. Comisionar una obra de arte es un proceso creativamente atractivo y gratificante; dándote la oportunidad de ser parte del proceso artístico que está involucrado al crear una obra de arte.